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ewams··on Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs
is that only for certain distro's because that isnt true on debian:

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ewams··on Drop Dropbox
https://AlwaySyncd.com
ewams··on Show HN: AlwaySyncd.com – A dedicated and encrypted BTSync endpoint
Point well taken. Thank you and fixed.
ewams··on In Tennessee, four bills seek to reverse restrictions on public broadband
Yes. A large portion of the state is state ran parks.

http://www.state.tn.us/environment/natural-areas/natural-are...

http://tnstateparks.com/parks/about/fall-creek-falls

http://hikingchattanooga.com/

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/hiking/find-a-hike/interacti...

ewams··on Featured dataset cannot be downloaded
This is a great example of a use case for using Bittorrent Sync. They just need to create a read-only secret for each dataset they want to share and then put it on the website. Then the data is P2P'd for cheaper and much easier to maintain. Plus if the Government shuts down or has an issue the data can still be transferred.
ewams··on Why Mt. Gox is full of shit
FTA: "The time to stop using Mt. Gox has been long overdue. Move your business to a more serious exchange, one that is willing to admit their failures, should they occur. One that has the best interests of the entire Bitcoin ecosystem in mind, rather than their own bottom line."
ewams··on Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users
We use Overdrive from our library on two separate Android devices. Does not worry me for my device but the other user is not technology adept. Just getting Overdrive working and the user trained on was a nightmare and bucket of frustrations.
ewams··on 160-Year-Old Documents Intentionally Destroyed in Franklin County, N.C.
Source?
ewams··on A Hard Lesson from Motown: They Will Steal Your Pension
In the US it is generally called employer matching. This benefit is starting to be harder to come buy and some people are "grandfathered in" but many companies do have a matching plan to contribute additional money to an employee's 401k, 403b, pension plans, etc.

Some do percentage matching up to a certain percentage of employee's pay. Other do percentage matching up to a certain dollar amount. Some do a hard dollar amount. Some do dollar amount or percentage matching based on years of service. Some do "as profits allow." Some do nothing.

You are correct that this money is only to the retirement account, it would not otherwise be cash in hand at a paycheck.

ewams··on A Prediction: Bitcoin Is Doomed to Fail
Is gold issued by governments?
ewams··on Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
In the parent article they said they switched because of cost: "When Hitachi drives got too expensive we switched to Seagate and Western Digital. When internal drives got too expensive we turned to external drives. When hard drive availability became an issue we turned to Drive Farming."

From their article on v2 they said: "The Western Digital and Seagate equivalents we tested saw much higher rates of popping out of RAID arrays and drive failure. Even the Western Digital Enterprise Hard Drives had the same high failure rates. The Hitachi drives, on the other hand, perform wonderfully." http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v...

There are other articles where they mention that they do testing and some brands perform better than others.

ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
We actually have 10 on board not including myself. Two of them are very surprising. Thank you for your communications and offers of assistance. If anyone can assist in getting communication going with AOL let me know ASAP.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Can you contact me? Info in profile.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
5 on board.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Have spoken with a few people already. Of those, three others have currently offered support. Need help even if you do not have funds:

What we need are contacts at AOL and AOL Music. If you know anyone that works at AOL or anyone that has a relationship with someone at AOL let me know.

PS. Had two offers with BTC pledges, unfortunately that would make things more difficult so please just help with USD or personal contacts.

ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Open source was not in my comment nor is it the intention of the Winamp fund.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
AOL is a publicly traded company. They have "responsibilities" to their shareholders to grow. How a private company of 20 can handle a product like Winamp is drastically different than a company with 5000+ employees. Flexibility, reaction speed, etc.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
From linked articles it has ~6mm in revenue already. Clean that up, optimize and then spread out.
ewams··on Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
Starting a Winamp fund. 100k to join. If >9 other people join me we will make AOL an offer. Contact in profile.
ewams··on Bitcoin broke $700 ($750 at this moment)
That graph is darn sexy, and I am talking about the object itself not the data. The most practical and useful "interactive chart" I have ever seen. Props to Clark Moody. Does anyone know how to use that type of chart to display information from other data sources?
ewams··on The Five Year Itch
That's funny, I consider myself a nomad and have almost your introduction word-for-word as my bio on my website. Your article portrays the moving activities well and a few things I haven't tried (the new house stuff). I am surprised to find this is you considering some of the physical projects you have written about (windmill, gas station, RV, etc).

The stuff accumulation is a big one for me too. Before I started this lifestyle definitely was doing all I could to save things and then I just realized that most of it I never touch so I took the nostalgia things, took pictures, and then donated to charity. That way my stuff's "soul" can give happy memories to others.

ewams··on Dear USA, my data has left your building
Please explain what "the reality" is in regards for what they use it for that is more frightening.
ewams··on CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE
Thanks I have not heard of DRBL. After reading it sounds pretty much like PVS, though PVS does have some additional features I don't see on it. Will have to try it out! DRBL is a free software though.
ewams··on CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE
Yea I meant "I usually" :-p
ewams··on CoreOS: Boot on Bare Metal with PXE
It is possible to PXE boot a full blown OS, not just OS installer, Live CD or CoreOS.

The product usually used to do this is: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/technologies/pvs-pr... It is just a nice GUI that ties into PXE and TFTP and just streams an image from a disk file.

On a 1Gb network I have booted over 300 physical machines in under 2 minutes simultaneously.

For those curious, unfortunately PVS is packaged with XenDesktop so you have to buy XenDesktop to get PVS. Citrix does not seem willing to separate the two as different products even though I have deployed PVS for several customers without even download the XenDestkop bits.

ewams··on Ask HN: What's the oldest piece of software still in use?
Can we get a picture of that?
ewams··on This tiny, wearable patch makes you invisible to mosquitos
From the linked article it is unclear if the chemicals are absorbed into the body or not. From the horse's mouth:

"Kite Patch is designed for clothing, not skin. A few news articles did get it wrong – but our technology is designed to be placed on clothing, baby carriers, backpacks, Camelbacks and other outdoor gear (for outdoor enthusiasts), etc. Kite is NOT a skin patch."

Source: http://www.kitepatch.com about 5 pages down.

Manufacture's website: http://olfactorlabs.com

ewams··on Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
Can you please explain how and why living with one's parents is an insult?
ewams··on Abandoned island in the middle of NYC
From the last picture, if the door was closed, the shots were fired from inside the building. Doubt the shots would have came from police at "nearby Riker's Island."
ewams··on Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud
Good article that discusses something I have not touched in years, simply because of a lot of the drawbacks he talks about. Also is a wonderful sales pitch, someone has been practicing.

In the virtualization world we argue often about how to do things “right” and what the “industry standards” are. I started a series a while back to help define and explain virtualization and various related topics. Specifically I even talk about this subject ( http://ewams.net/?date=2012/01/04&view=The_4_Types_of_Virtua... ).

The main problem with saying VM’s are “no longer the future” is they are mainstream and have been for a while, so they probably are not not cool enough for hackers but they are not going anywhere fast. Containers have a place and full blown virtual machines have a place. The trick is finding which one will benefit your organization and for which purpose. Most likely both can work depending on the requirements.

The other topic I notice that is usually overlooked when talking about virtualization is the actual OS. Here in this article it discusses mostly Red Hat based distro’s. Some organizations strictly use OSX, others Ubuntu, others RHEL, while others use some sort of mix. Each is different and even for closely related like Fedora and RHEL, what works on one may not work on another without hacking it or some other black magic. (Or it may work just fine, you know how it goes). The other point of the OS talk is where is Windows? We can pretend to be ostriches but Windows server is out there and in large numbers. Lots of people make lots of money writing applications that work strictly on Windows (same for *nix). Just do not forget about it.

If we move forward with containers, and since the topic has come up at least twice in the last 6 months, let’s start to see recommendations on how to run containers. How to pick workloads. How to optimize applications and kernels to run them. What kind of hardware to run them on. How to code for them. Etc.

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